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	'<{title}>' => 'Construction begins',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed I&apos;d just woken up.
		I lived in a houses instead of an apartment.
		To my horror though, I&apos;d forgotten to lock my bedroom door the night before, and there were signs my mother was in my place.
		I panicked, but then I really woke up.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<p>
		The person that claimed they&apos;d fill out my survey was bragging that they&apos;d gotten almost double the required number of survey participants in under a day on the school&apos;s private social subnetwork.
		They never filled out my survey as they said they would.
		My response:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Wow, you got pretty lucky then!
			I&apos;ve posted in both my courses and on that same social network and gotten a whopping zero hits.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		My closing discussion posts for the week:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I agree, Thompson&apos;s article was much more captivating.
			Thompson was pretty on point with that opening remark too about how reporting on sports became irrelevant in the wake of a bigger threat.
			Comparing the event to past disasters was a nice touch as well.
			Things certainly did change that day.
			The country still hasn&apos;t recovered, and it&apos;s been, what, seventeen years?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Thanks for showing us the difference in interest between a yearly compounding and a continuous compounding.
			It really does make a difference how often interest is compounded.
			Exponents are a powerful thing; a small change in the numbers or the equation makes a big difference, particularly further down the road.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		The student from yesterday was complaining again, saying I need to read the textbook before I submit my discussion responses.
		My reply:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			It&apos;s also recommended per university guidelines that we post early on in the week.
			My days off from work are frequently Tuesday and Wednesday: the final days of the school week.
			I can usually have the reading material in one of my courses read early on, but not both.
			In order to get both of my initial discussion posts submitted in a timely manner, I have no choice but to post before reading.
			When I think I understand a topic, I jump on that discussion topic right away and postpone that course&apos;s reading material so I can focus on the other course&apos;s material and get that post in quickly as well.
		</p>
		<p>
			Waiting until I&apos;d read it would have meant waiting until yesterday to post in this course.
			That really, <strong>*really*</strong> doesn&apos;t work.
			Ignoring the fact that that would give almost no time for anyone to respond, this school also had their discussion board configured to disallow the reading of other students&apos; posts until we&apos;ve made our own first posts.
			(My previous school didn&apos;t do this, and allowed students to read before submitting.)
			I can certainly appreciate why this school has the discussion boards set up that way, but I need to be able to make my posts throughout the week in the small scraps of time that I have.
			I often can&apos;t fit reading a textbook chapter into those scraps of time, but I can fit reading an individual post or two and replying in.
			Again, that means I need to post as early as I can, so those small scraps of time don&apos;t go to waste.
		</p>
		<p>
			If you have a better way, I&apos;d love to hear it.
			I&apos;d love to go about this in a more effective manner.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t mention it, but as long as I&apos;m on censorship lock-down, I also try to make at least one post a day, drawing my posts out to last more days.
		Before the school pulled their garbage, I usually <strong>*did*</strong> wait until I&apos;d completed the reading material to post.
		I also got the reading material read <strong>*sooner*</strong>, as I was actually <strong>*excited*</strong> so study what they had to offer.
		At this point, it takes a lot of energy to force myself to work on coursework, and I just don&apos;t always have that on days I have to use my energy to function at my job.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<img src="/y.st./source/y.st./static/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2018/03/07.png" alt="The tower&apos;s base" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="600"/>
	<p>
		The rails have been completed, and the shaft has been filled with a vertical forest.
		Why?
		Well, why not?
		I&apos;ve covered the hole and begun erecting the tower.
		I thought the bottleneck would be the acquisition of pine wood, but it&apos;s actually the acquisition of <strong>*snow*</strong> that&apos;s slowing me down.
		I&apos;ve got walls of rock on all four sides, and those all need to be covered in snow blocks.
		In theory, no one will see the snow, but if someone decides to build in the nearby ground, the snow will look much nicer than a cobble fill.
		Still, there&apos;s a gab between where the snow needs to be and where the tower stands.
		I might fill <strong>*that*</strong> in with cobble to conserve snow.
		Or I might widen some of the rooms in certain spots to better use that space.
		I haven&apos;t decided which yet.
		The snow is a pain to gather though.
		Each tree, if grown correctly, produces twenty-five snow nodes.
		Those can be combined to form two and seven ninths of a snow block node.
		Needless to say, gathering all the snow I need will be a slow process.
	</p>
	<p>
		No more digging for now.
		Now is a time for tree farming and building.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve decided not to work with the goal of an end in mind.
		That way, I won&apos;t have to stop once I&apos;ve hit that goal.
		What previously was the end will now just be the end of phase zero.
		After phase zero will come phase one, phase one point one, then phase two.
		I&apos;ve already looked into the calculations needed for phases one and one point one, though I haven&apos;t performed said calculations to determine tower locations yet.
		Also, without an end in mind, there&apos;s no reason to combine themes any more, as there&apos;s no need to pack more themes into fewer towers.
		As such, this central tower won&apos;t combine the themes of pine trees and diamonds.
		It&apos;ll simply be a pinewood tower.
		The first nine towers will be themed around plants: five trees, two bushes, and two farm crops.
	</p>
</section>
END
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